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100
A fan-shaped marshy area located at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Nile Delta
100
Which geographical feature provided Ancient Egyptians with means to trade and farm?
What is the Nile River
100
In order to preserve bodies for the afterlife the Ancient Egyptians performed what process?
What is mummification
100
The material that Ancient Egyptians wrote Hieroglyphics on
What is Papyrus?
100
Person who could read and write
Who was a scribe?
200
fine soil found on river bottoms
What is silt
200
The region closest to the Mediterranean Sea(northern Egypt)
What is Lower Egypt?
200
Belief in more than one god
What is Polytheism?
200
This is the Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What is hieroglyphics
200
The trusted advisor to the Pharoah
What is a Vizier?
300
the title of a king in ancient Egypt
Who is a pharaoh
300
Country found on the continent of Africa where The Nile River is located
What is Egypt
300
spirit that leaves the body after death
What is Ka?
300
a huge building with four sloping triangle-shaped sides; built as royal tombs in Egypt
What is a pyramid?
300
Family took over ruling Egypt
What is a dynasty?
400
life after death
What is afterlife
400
The two deserts surrounding the Nile River
What are the Eastern and Western Deserts?
400
A ruler's name written in a special box-like figure
What is a Cartouche?
400
Groups, or pyramid, that Ancient Egyptians were born into
What is social class?
400
This person united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Narmer?
500
A period of flooding
What is inundation?
500
3 "Gifts" of the Nile
What is transportation, farming, silt, flooding, etc.
500
These people are believed to get powers from the gods
Who were the pharaohs?
500
Which important artifact gave us the clues needed to translate hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
The two groups of people located at the bottom of the social pyramid
What are farmers and slaves?